Hindsight Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“This is a significant event for all kinds of reasons, but primarily because it is the first and last time anyone in the Russian…

— Jennifer Eremeeva

“Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.”

— Samuel Beckett

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French…

— Clare Short

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— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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— Pat Barker

“It is important, I feel, that these things are set down somewhere. I would not wish these things to be forgotten. These things were…

— Holger Eckhertz

“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.”

— Stephanie Dray

“Being that most everyone knew Latvian and Russian, it was the only indication.”

— Jeff Keenan

“But why wake up all that past? Why reopen the old wounds of those who were living in Moscow and in country houses at…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child